Buffalo, NY – EWI is growing its team at Buffalo Manufacturing Works with the addition of Daniel Kmiotek. Kmiotek will support the organization’s materials & testing technology focus area as a metrology technician. Buffalo Manufacturing Works is committed to helping manufacturers grow and compete with access to the world’s best engineers, technicians and scientists.

Kmiotek comes to the team with more than 20 years of experience in materials engineering and previously worked at Praxair and Delphi Corp. His background includes a variety of metallographic sample preparation methods and the operation of inspection instrumentation and techniques such as scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive spectroscopy, and optical microscopy.

“As EWI and Buffalo Manufacturing Works continue to build our technical capabilities, it’s critical that we have the right people on our team to work with the leading edge equipment we are adding to our facility,” said Michael Ulbrich, President of Buffalo Manufacturing Works. “The addition of Daniel to our team will help us take our materials and testing technology focus area to the next level by helping manufacturers develop, test and implement advanced manufacturing technologies.”

Since opening in April 2015, Buffalo Manufacturing Works has nearly doubled its fulltime staff to 15 people. In its first year of operation, Buffalo Manufacturing Works has engaged with more than 50 companies, started 35 projects and has had more than 2,000 visitors. It is a project of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s Buffalo Billion initiative.

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About EWI

EWI is the leading engineering and technology organization in North America dedicated to developing, testing, and implementing advanced manufacturing technologies for industry. Since 1984, EWI has offered applied research, manufacturing support, and strategic services to leaders in the aerospace, automotive, consumer electronic, medical, energy, government and defense, and heavy manufacturing sectors. By matching our expertise to the needs of forward-thinking manufacturers, our technology team serves as a valuable extension of our clients’ innovation and R&D teams to provide premium, game-changing solutions that deliver a competitive advantage in the global marketplace. To learn more, visit www.ewi.org, email info@ewi.org, or call 614.688.5000.

About Buffalo Manufacturing Works

Buffalo Manufacturing Works, operated by EWI, helps innovation-driven organizations across North America excel by partnering with their internal manufacturing, engineering and R&D teams to deliver better products, grow, and compete. Located on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus in downtown Buffalo, the facility houses state-of-the-art equipment to facilitate applied R&D projects with members, as well as a team specializing in three primary technology focus areas: Advanced Automation, Additive Manufacturing and Materials & Testing. For more information, visit www.buffalomanufacturingworks.com.

About the Buffalo Billion

With Governor Cuomo’s commitment to invest $1 billion in the Buffalo area economy, which is designed to spur significantly greater private investment and create thousands of new, sustainable jobs, New York State is helping the Buffalo area to realize immediate economic growth to put “generation now” back to work while setting the foundation for sustainable economic opportunity for future generations. The Western New York Regional Economic Development Council – a top economic development plan award winner – will play a key role in how the funding is used to support the expansion of local companies and how to target the attraction of new businesses across the country and around the globe to come to Buffalo. To learn more about the Buffalo Billion, visit www.buffalobillion.ny.gov.